Don't tread on me.

Radicals demand and Islamic Britain

Among Muslims in the United Kingdom, these radicals are an angry -- and uncompromising -- minority. They want to see Buckingham Palace become a mosque. Their goal: Muslim domination of the UK, if not the world.

CNN Commentary: Democrats' incompetence isn't funny

Jon Stewart had a funny bit the other day on "The Daily Show" (well, I thought it was funny) where he lambasted the Democrats for not delivering on their "supermajority" status.

47% of households pay no federal income tax - and their ranks are growing

Most people think they pay too much to Uncle Sam, but for some people it simply is not true. In 2009, roughly 47% of households, or 71 million, will not owe any federal income tax, according to estimates by the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center.

Don't Bail Out Newspapers--Let Them Die and Get Out of the Way

Nobody in their right mind believes the future of the news business involves paper and ink rather than pixels on a screen. We all know where the news business is headed, and what's more, we've known it for at least a decade.

Texas police take on blog commenters

....it appears that when certain citizens of Austin get behind their computers, they turn into monstrous villains.

Obama's Rhetoric vs. Common Sense

"Hubris-laden charlatans" was the way a recent e-mail from a reader characterized the Obama administration.

Barney Frank Encourages Dem-Only Health Bill

A healthcare bill passed with a simple majority in the Senate is completely legitimate, Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) insisted Wednesday. Frank, the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, dismissed the notion that healthcare reform must be bipartisan in nature.

Bailout Nation: Obama and Congress Get F in Economics. Let's do the numbers!

America is awash in debt. The results are simply astonishing. They will take your breath away.

Saddam and Obama: the Omnipresent Leaders

In 2003, motoring around western Iraq a few weeks after the regime's fall, when the schoolhouses were hastily taking down the huge portraits of Saddam that had hung on every classroom wall, I visited an elementary-school principal with a huge stack of suddenly empty picture fra …

Unemployment jumps to a 26-year high of 9.7%, net loss of 216,000 jobs in August.

The unemployment rate, which in July fell for the first time in 15 months, turned higher again, jumping to 9.7% from 9.4% in July. This is the highest the unemployment rate has been since June 1983. Economists forecast that the jobless rate hit 9.5% in August.

Ann Coulter, Liberal Lies About National Health Care: Third in a Series (Commemorative Plates On Sale Now!)

Hey -- I have an idea: How about we make everyone in America a multimillionaire by pulling Bernie Madoff out of prison and asking him to invest all our money! Both Medicare and Bernie Madoff's investment portfolio are bankrupt because they operate on a similar financial model kno …

What I learned from "the mob": Voters don't believe the White House claim that we'll save money by spending more.

TOM COBURN, WSJ: I spoke with thousands of voters at town-hall meetings this summer. What I gathered from them is that it's not just the proposed overhaul of health care that has them upset. Many also expressed a sense of betrayal.

Decentralization for Freedom

For the first time in 144 years State interposition (Madison) and State nullification and secession (Jefferson) have entered public discourse as remedies to usurpations by the central government of rights reserved to the sovereign people of the States by the Constitution.

Obama's Real Agenda: Redistributive Change

The first seven months of the Obama administration seemingly make no sense. Why squander public approval by running up astronomical deficits in a time of pre-existing staggering national debt? Why polarize opponents after promising bipartisan transcendence?

Liberal Lies About National Health Care: Second in a Series

With the Democrats getting slaughtered -- or should I say, "receiving mandatory end-of-life counseling" -- in the debate over national health care, the Obama administration has decided to change the subject by indicting CIA interrogators for talking tough to three of the world's  …

'Historic' deficit a political thorn for Obama

WASHINGTON — The federal budget deficit will hit a record $1.6 trillion this year, a figure that could threaten President Obama's agenda, complicate 2010 congressional campaigns and set up big political battles over government spending.

Debate Shows How Little Obama Understands

"Choice, competition, reducing costs -- those are the things that I want to see accomplished in this health reform bill," President Obama told talk-show host Michael Smerconish last week.

Did Waterboarding Actually Work?

Internal CIA reports released by the Obama administration on Monday suggest that former vice president Dick Cheney was right about one thing: the CIA's interrogations of suspected terrorists provided U.S.

Saving the Obama Presidency - Obama needs to move to the right.

Today the lesson that President Barack Obama and the Democratic leadership in Congress take from that 1994 defeat is that they need to avoid Mr. Clinton's "mistakes." Avoiding mistakes, however, is not a winning strategy. A far more productive strategy would be to embrace Mr.

Much ado about China - overblown announcements heralding the supposed coming of the Age of China.

The theory of the inevitable rise of China is similar to the recent theory of the inevitable end of the U. S.

The President Seems Lost

Let's go back to that "teachable moment." It was proclaimed by Barack Obama after he said that police in Cambridge, Mass., had acted "stupidly" in arresting Henry Louis Gates for essentially being black in his own house.

What went wrong? It's almost Labor Day. Healthcare reform is struggling, the public option is near dead. Why couldn't Obama deliver?

Barring a major public groundswell or miraculous reversal in Congress, Barack Obama's healthcare reform package will not include the provision that matters most to the Democratic base, the so-called public option.

He's spending your future - after the president taxes the rich, you're next

Meanwhile, in Brazil, India, China, Japan and much of Continental Europe, the recession has ended. In the second quarter this year, both the French and German economies grew by 0.3 percent, while the U.S. economy shrank by 1 percent.

The Tenth Amendment - the line in the sand...

The 10th Amendment was ratified as an exclamation point on the Constitution – and it lays out in plain English that our federal government is to be one of limited, enumerated powers – not the nearly unlimited, unchecked one that it has become today.

Time to sever healthcare constraints - Obama confusing the issues

Barack Obama's presidency is in trouble. Support among centrist and swing voters continues to leak away, his signature domestic initiative is in jeopardy and the prevailing theme of US political commentary is shifting from hope and expectation to explaining what went wrong.

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